4 - Wednesday, July 14, 1999 — North Shore News

NV man Kil
lake mishap

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By lan Jacques
The Chicf

A North Vancouver man
is dead following a div-
ing accident carly
Sunday evening at a lake
north of Squamish.

Just after 6 p.m., Squamish
RCMP were notitied of a miss-
ing person who had last been
scen swimining in Cat Lake.

The ran had been diving
with a diving mask and fins
looking for objects on the bot-
tom of the lake.

Squamish = Search — and
Rescue assisted the RCM? in
the search of the area.

“At 8:06 p.ta. 4 constable
using a borrowed canoe was
searching near the shoreline

when he spotted the body of

the missing man in about 15
tees of water,” said Cpl Don
Orthner.

“An ROMP diver and coro:
ner attended the scene and
with the assistance of search
and rescue personnel the body
of a male person was recov:
ered.”

Dead is 2o-yearold
Jonathan Franklin Towes,

No foul play is suspected
and police are sul investigat-
ing.

It’s the third drowning in
Squamish area waters in a year.

Injured hiker cies

A North Vancouver
woman has died after
falling more than 30
metres (98 feet) at
Mount Seymour.

Deborah White, 35, suc-
cumbed to muliple injuries at
2:45 a.m. Monday, more than
seven hours after she was airlift-
ed from wilderness.

White and her husband
were hiking on the north face
of Moun: Seymour's second
peak Sunday afternoon when
she slipped "and fell down a
steep snow slope. North Shore
Rescue was called to the scene
at 4 p.m. to assist White.

Thirteen members of the vol-
unteer group responded with a
helicopucr. wo rescuers were
‘transported by helicopter to
. Where White was at 5:17 p.ni

“Admission $5 per person ior weekend

Several hikers were at the
scene after the mishap to assist
White. Seven more NSR mem-
bers were flown in at 5:53 p.m.
with rope rescuc equipment
and a stretcher.

White was treated for
hypothermia and lowered at

60 p. m. down the slope ina
secured stretcher to a ievel arca
where the helicopter could
load her for transport to hospi-
tal, White, accompanied by a
paramedic, went via helicopter
from the mountain to Grand
Boulevard where an ambulance
took her the rest of the way to
Lions Gate Hospital.

“We made an incredible
amount of effort to save her
life,” said NSR’s Tim Jones,
“We cxpress our sorrow and

m to her family,”
sympa — Bob Mackin

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